Test 2 Flashcards
What is the dominion and mandate for Ariki
iwi/waka
Whakapapa - skills expertise & preowess
Dominion & mandate for rangatira
Iwi/hapu
Whakapapa
Dominion & mandate for kaumatua
whanau
whakapapa
Dominion & mandate for tohunga
iwi/hapu/whanau
whakapapa - skills & expertise
Mana Motuhake
Separate independent authority and autonomy
Kotahitanga
Unity and oneness
What is the Kingitanga and why was it established?
Translates to kingship and refers to the King of Aotearoa or ‘Maori King’. Was formed to unite the Maori under a single rules and stop inter tribal rivalries. This was established at the request of Queen Victoria who questioned who the most powerful rangatira was, with the intention to unit the Maori King and Queen Victoria under God and achieve equal leaders. It is a social organisation.
Te Atairangikaahu
The first maori queen
Te Kotahitanga
Maori parliament, agenda was to investigate the treaty, section 71 of constitution and strategies to encourage unity
Meri Mangakahia
Advocated for right of women to vote, elect members and to sit as members in the parliament.
Traditional maori social organisation
Iwi - a tribe, led by Ariki (leader)
Hapu - led by rangatira and made up of a group of families
Whanau - families (close and extended), connected through whakapapa
Papahurihia
- first maori prophet who drew on both maori christian knowledge systems
- claimed to have power to converse with the dead and created a whistling sound as spirits spoke
- was invisible
- deny christianity
Pai Marire
- Te Ua was captured as a slave as a child and learnt -scriptures
- Angels appeared to him and received messages from God
- Was feared by missionaries
- Communicated with God on the breath of the wind
- Became a religion constructed for both peace and war
- Faith of the kingitanga
Ringatu / Te Kooti
- Reading scriptures and charged with spying
- divine intervention during isolation
founded ringatu movement based on old testament teachings - ringatu faith challenged pai marire
- sent to exile on chatham islands and got tubercular fever
- a lighted flame on hand that did not burn him
- escaped prison with 300 others
- instructed by god to teach his people
Parihaka
- preached peace, passive resistance and separation of the races
- Activist tactics that led to civil disobedience; e.g. survey pegs removed, ploughed up land settled by pakeha farmers, built fences over roads, dismantled fences built by the government, and preached idea of maori to live side by side
- pacifism
Rua Kenana
- proclaimed as messiah
- arrested and imprisoned for 2 years charged with sedition
- vision was: salvation for his people, recovery of confiscated lands, divine intervention and fulfilment of covenant conditional on people’s faith
- independence
One of the greatest misconceptions is…
the treaty and te tiriti bear a relationship to each other… the two documents have nothing in common with each other
R v Symonds 1847
- Questioned competence of settlers to buy land directly from maori,
- judge recognised the treaty as a constitutional document that had been confirmed by the colony
- relevant in regulating relationships between Crown, Maori and settlers
Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington 1877 (pendergast)
- Land gifted to crown for educational purposes and church did not use land for this reason, so parata wanted it returned
- judge said maori customs were primitive and not able to be recognised in law
- said the whole treaty was worthless - a simple nullity
- pretended to be an agreement between two nations but was actually between a civilised nation and a group of savages
- resulted in years of discriminated
Te Weehi v Regional Fisheries Officer
- All future legislation should recognise the principles of the treaty of waitangi
- government department should consult maori
Huakina Development Trustt v Waikato Valley Authority 1987
- Brought case to HC against WVA for granting a water right to discharge dairy effluent into the waikato river
- Argued river was a taonga and protected by Article 2 of te tiriti
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney General 1987
LANDS CASE
- Govt introduced Rogernomics and established state owned enterprises SOEs
- Transformed government departments and agencies into privatised companies e.g. spark
- government lands were to be passed over and privatised, while maori were engaged in process of reclaiming government lands through treaty claims
- maori council requested injunction until claims had been settled
- SOE Bill s9 prevented crown from acting in an inconsistent manner to the treaty
- this prevented transferring land to SOE without protecting maori interest
- HC upheld treaty rights and put nz in post colonial era
functions of Waitangi tribunal
- permanent commission of enquiry
- not a court
- intended to enquire into claims by maori against the crown that have been prejudicially affected by government legislation, policy and inaction/action that is inconsistent with the treaty
- publishes reports and recommendations and findings are not binding
role of waitangi tribunal
define principles of treaty of waitangi